Bob Dylan's Officially
Released
Rarities and Obscurities

Video: "The Dark Side of
the Road" - Questionable Releases(title suggested by Sergio Mariano Romay)

This is a page of VHS and DVD items formerly included in the main list which
were or are being sold legally at the time in their own countries, but which have been
challenged by contributors. I have therefore moved them here to this page. I've
also added all the unauthorised DVD documentaries about Bob that have appeared
in droves in the 2000s. I have only used an R- number where the performance on
the questionable item is officially released elsewhere, performances exclusive
to these questionable items now have their own Q- numbers. For
Questionable audio releases, see here.

Revised
01 January, 2018.

George Harrison & Friends - "The Concert For Bangladesh" - Apple feature
film, Mar 1972, DVD release: Cine Arts DVD DC 034 (Brazil), 2002:These are unauthorised DVDs made from tape sources. For the original Apple album release and subsequent CD releases, see
1972.
For the remastered CD version with a bonus track, see
2005. For the original VHS release, see VHS & DVD 1970s.
For the expanded 2DVD edition released in the USA and UK on 24 Oct 2005, which
includes new Dylan material, see VHS &
DVD 2000s Part 3.

Cine Art DVD DC 034 (Brazil) (my copy)

All songs recorded live with George Harrison, Leon Russell and Ringo
Starr, Madison Square Garden, New York, 1 Aug 1971 (evening show).

If Not For You
(R-0484)- a short
clip of Bob and George Harrison performing this song early in the film, not
included on the soundtrack album

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (R-0075)
This performance also appeared on a 1983 compilation from Columbia Brazil, The
Legend, see 1983

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A
Train To Cry (R-0076)
This performance also appeared on a 1995 Westwood One radio station broadcast
about Dylan and the Beatles,
see 1995.

Blowin' In The Wind (R-0077)
This performance also appeared on an Epic promo CD single for The Concert For
Bangladesh,
see 1991.

Just Like A Woman (R-0079)

Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the Brazilian DVD shown on the left. This
is a Region 0 release, almost certainly unauthorised by Paramount.

This video was legal in Italy at
the time of release; however Larry Crum informs me it is almost certainly
unauthorised. Andrea Brillo from Italy informs me he also has this material
on another 1989 Italian commercial video called just Bob Dylan,
AVOFILM cod. 3174, but it is just 30 minutes in length and does not
include Q-0029. Scans of the Tour Europeo - Arena Di Verona
video required!.

The photograph of
Bob shown left was signed by him for Yan Friis after one of the Arena Di
Verona shows!

"Bob Dylan" - Avofilm release without Q-0029, scan by Andrea Brillo

"Bob Dylan" - Avofilm release, tape
sticker scan by Andrea Brillo

The first two songs on this video were recorded at the Arena
Di Verona, Italy, on 28 May 1984, the remaining four on the following night,
29 May 1984.

Q-0024 JokermanQ-0025 All Along The WatchtowerQ-0026 Like A Rolling Stone Q-0027 The Times They Are A-Changin'Q-0028 Blowin' In The WindQ-0029 Tombstone Blues

Thanks to
Glen Dundas for information and to Yan Friis and Andrea Brillo for information and scans.

HBO special from the 1986 Australian tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, recorded Sydney, Australia, 24 & 25
Feb 1986, broadcast 20 Jun 1986, also released on VHS and
on laserdisc. For original VHS and laserdisc releases of this concert see VHS & DVD 1980s. Track listing:

The Glass Music release is a Region 0 NTSC DVD, which can be played in any DVD
player worldwide that can convert NTSC signals. The DVD Total release is also
NTSC, Regions 1 & 6 only.

Heartbreakers
Live In Australia
is the Hard To Handle video on DVD with Dolby
Digital 5.1 sound. As far as I know this is its first appearance on DVD,
but its legality anywhere else in the world is questionable. The artwork
is from the 1984 Real Live album!

Thanks to Dag Braathen for notifying me of this item on eBay and to
Keith Venturoni for the scan. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming from Brazil for
information about a different Brazilian DVD release which came with a magazine called
"DVD Total", now using the Hard To Handle title and
artwork. Thanks to Paul Ryan for informing me that amazon.com have
on sale a version of this DVD just called Live - Australia from
Phantom Sound & Vision (no picture available) which is listed as Region 1
only. This is also apparently sourced from Brazil. I find the fact that
they're selling it surprising, as I'm sure that in the USA it is regarded as
pirated. Thanks also to Ian Woodward for information that a Brazilian-sourced DVD
of Hard To Handle is being sold in Japan - it could be the "DVD Total"
version shown here.

Thanks also to Alexandre for copies of these two
Brazilian DVDs! Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for scans of a 2003 South Korean
DVD release being sold on amazon.com, the studio is apparently "Best Album 1
****". As there is some Portuguese text on the packaging as well as Korean, it's
possible the DVD is sourced from the Brazilian release also called
Heartbreakers Live In Australia.

This documentary film (see VHS & DVD 1960s) was edited
from D. A. Pennebaker's footage of Bob's May 1966 UK tour by Bob and Howard Alk, but was never shown on TV as
intended. It has had a couple of cinema showings, and excerpts have been
included in many videos, both about Bob and about the Band and Robbie Robertson (see
below and all other VHS & DVD pages). Excerpts also
appear in the 2005 Martin Scorsese documentary "No Direction
Home: Bob Dylan", see
VHS & DVD 2000s Part 3.Pennebaker also made his own film of the
tour called "Something Is Happening", which reportedly contains
more performance footage than "Eat the Document", but this too
remains unseen. This unauthorised DVD release also contains all the known
out-takes, including the
out-take with Bob and John Lennon in a London taxi, also see 2007 below.

This DVD is ostensibly a copy of an American TV broadcast in a series called
"Celebrating... " made by American Dream Television and ABC Enterprises. It
consists of already available Dylan appearances and there is no commentary.
It was re-released in Argentina with different artwork in 2011.

Just Like A Woman - live with Tom Petty and
The Heartbreakers from the HBO special Hard To Handle with Tom Petty
and The Heartbreakers, 1986 (R-0173, see
VHS & DVD 1980s)

I'll Remember You - live with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers from the HBO special Hard To Handle
with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, 1986 (R-0180, see
VHS & DVD 1980s)

Most Of The Time - not the 1989 Oh Mercy
version but a new version recorded for the promo video at the Record Plant, Hollywood,
CA, 16 Mar 1990, produced by Don Was (R-0209,
see 1990)

Series Of Dreams - Columbia promo video version
of track from The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3, 1991 (R-0676,
see 1991)

I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have
Met) - recorded with the Hawks at Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 May 1966, from the unreleased
documentary film "Eat The Document" (R-0319, see VHS & DVD 1960s)

Excerpt from interview with Bob at press conference, San Francisco, 3 Dec 1965
(R-0496,
see Interviews with Bob)

The ABC TV documentary on this unauthorised
DVD contains an interview by Bob Brown at Dylan's home in Malibu recorded on
19 Sep 1985 for a special aired on 10 Oct 1985. Includes some LA Farm-Aid
rehearsal footage, an out-take from Don't Look Back (see VHS & DVD 1960s) and some
"making of" clips for the We Are The World song
(see VHS & DVD
1980s).
The programme lasts around 40 mins, but the raw footage of the interview
(around another half hour or so) is now also available and may be on this
DVD.

An unauthorised fifty minute compilation of twelve "live
and rare" TV performances, including excerpts of the Concert for Bangladesh
in 1971, the Johnny Cash Show in 1969, and the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Tracklisting:

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; It Takes A Lot To Laugh (It
Takes
A Train To Cry); Blowin' In The Wind; Just Like A Woman (The Concert for
Bangladesh, 1971);

Hurricane; Simple
Twist Of Fate; Oh, Sister (The World of John Hammond, 1975)

I Threw It All Away; Living The Blues; Girl From
The North Country (The Johnny Cash Show, 1969)

This set is definitely unauthorised. That it is being sold by
outlets such as amazon.co.uk and HMV is
surprising.

The contents
are as follows:

Disc 1:

Tracks 1-3:
Blowin' In The Wind; Man Of Constant Sorrow; The Ballad Of Hollis
Brown -
"Folk Songs & More Folk Songs", Westinghouse, Mar 1963 (introduced by John Henry Faulk)
Video of Blowin In The Wind
(R-0714) and Man Of Constant Sorrow (R-0716) appeared as bonus performances
on the Paramount 2DVD set No Direction Home - Bob Dylan,
see
VHS & DVD 2005-06. The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (R-1045)
from this date has now been released in audio on the Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music Europe 6LP limited edition 50th Anniversary Collection 1963, Dec
2013.

Track
4: With
God On Our Side - "BBC Tonight", 12 May 1964

Tracks 5-7 :
I Threw It All Away; Livin' The Blues; Girl From The North Country - "Johnny
Cash Show", 1 May 1969

Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - reverse of insert showing tracklist and
all other DVDs in this series

Rock Milestones RMS 2058 (UK) - DVD

This DVD release promised "rare live footage"
although nothing is new to Dylan collectors. The title has now
been changed to Bob Dylan - Changing Tracks and the picture of the
album has been omitted from the front! I originally thought this was
from a documentary broadcast on UK TV in a series called "Rock Milestones"
but there's no mention of it in the text. Prominent British Dylan fans such
as Andy Gill, Clinton Heylin and Andrew Muir contribute to the programme. The DVD contains these
performances:

This unauthorised biography was prepared with the assistance of UK Dylan
magazine "Isis". It is the second of three parts, the first being
2004's
Tales From A Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966 (see above).

I'll add more information when I've had time to watch it!

Chrome Dreams DVD-CVIS 390 (UK) - unfolded front insert

Chrome Dreams DVD-CVIS 390 (UK) - DVD

Various Artists - "Remember The 80s" - DVD, MCP Sound (catalogue
number?) (Europe), 14 Sep 2006:This PAL DVD is again almost certainly not authorized. The song is actually
from 1990, not the 80s!

This unauthorised documentary is said to include rare film footage, etc.
It contains two previously released unauthorised biographical DVDs -
Tales From A Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966 (2004, see above) and After The Crash: Bob
Dylan 1966-1978 (2006, see above). Both DVDs were prepared with the assistance of UK Dylan
magazine "Isis".

This DVD is another in the Rock Milestones
series. For Changing Tracks, see above. I haven't yet seen it, but
the amazon.co.uk entry claims it features "rare archive
performances" of Hard Times In New York Town; Baby, Please Donít Go;
Lonesome Whistle Blues; Fixiní To Die; Man Of Constant Sorrow; Blowiní In
The Wind; A Hard Rainís A-Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changiní;
Maggieís Farm; Mr Tambourine Man; All Along The Watchtower; Itís Alright Ma
(Iím Only Bleeding); Highway 61 Revisited and Just Like A Woman.

Thanks to Peter Coulthard for finding this release and to Larry Crum for
further information.

Tracklisting:

1-4 Hard Times In New York Town; Baby, Please Don't Go; Hard
Travelin'; Fixin' To Die - from "Folksinger's Choice" interview
with Cynthia Gooding, recorded 13 Jan 1962 (audio only, the DVD also has some
excerpts of the interview)

10 A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - as 9, excerpt from third
verse to end of song with talkover (R-0563). Other excerpts from this
performance are on the 1990 VHS documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith
To Bruce Springsteen (see VHS &
DVD 1990s Part 1) and the 1996 VHS/DVD documentary The Beatles Anthology
(see VHS & DVD 1990s Part 2). Now
released in full on The 50th Anniversary Collection 1964, see
2014.

11 Talkin' World War III Blues - as 9, second excerpt

12 The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - as 8

13 With God On Our Side - Tonight Show, BBC TV, London, 12
May 1964, first three verses with talkover (R-0382, from
"All You Need Is Love: The Story Of Popular Music", see
VHS & DVD 1970s). The first two verses with
different talkover are on the 1996 VHS/DVD documentary Dancing In The Street
- A History Of Rock And Roll (see VHS
& DVD 1990s Part 2)

14 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - as 9

15 When The Ship Comes In - March on Washington, 28 Mar
1963 (a different excerpt is included in No Direction Home, see above)

16 All I Really Want To Do - Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI, 26 Jul 1964
(R-0041). Available in more complete form in the 1966 feature film Festival!
(see VHS & DVD 1960s).

Train Of Love (Johnny Cash)
- from
the Johnny Cash Tribute special, broadcast from the Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 5
Apr 1999 (Bob's performance had been recorded earlier and was shown on video)
(R-0554, see 2002)

This unauthorised release consists of a 72-page illustrated book by Jeff
Perkins plus a 15-track DVD. Footage is taken from "Renaldo & Clara", the
1975 "World Of John Hammond" TV Special (for both see
VHS & DVD 1970s), and the 1976
"Hard Rain TV Special", none of which are yet commercially available.

Track
listing (thanks to Larry Crum for details):

Shelter From The Storm -
live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976 (from the
"Hard Rain TV Special")

Tangled Up In
Blue -
live with the Rolling Thunder Revue,
Boston Music Hall, 21 Nov 1975 (evening show), same performance as R-0245
(see 1995) and R-0746
(see 2002)

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall -
live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 4 Dec 1975,
on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975

One More Cup Of Coffee -
live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 4 Dec 1975

It Ain't Me,
Babe - live with the Rolling Thunder Revue, Cambridge, MA, 20 Nov 1975, on
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975

Highway 61 Revisited; Fixin' to Die; Man Of
Constant Sorrow; When The Ship Comes In; Only A Pawn In Their Game, Blowin'
In The Wind; Talkin' Worlds War II Blues; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; The
Times They Are A-Changin'; The Ballad Of Hollis Brown; All I Really Want To
Do; Mr. Tambourine Man; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Like A Rolling Stone;
Ballad Of A Thin Man; All Along The Watchtower; Tangled Up In Blue; Idiot
Wind; Simple Twist of Fate; Hurricane; Gotta Serve Somebody; Just Like A
Woman.

This unauthorised DVD contains Bob's full set, only Highway 61 Revisited
has been officially released on CD. For official radio station discs, the soundtrack album and CD singles, see 1994
and 1995. For the official Woodstock 94 VHS video release, see
VHS
& DVD 1990s Part 1 (as far as I know there is as yet no official DVD
release).

Thanks to Fred Muller for information and scans.
Thanks to Freddy OrdůŮez Araque for finding a
2013 release with the same artwork on amazon.com.

Thanks to Sergio Magnacca for finding this unauthorised DVD set on
amazon.co.uk. It includes the usual performances taken from TV appearances
such as Hurricane; Livin' The Blues; When You Gonna Wake Up?; Highway 61
Revisited; Don't Start Me To Talkin'; Simple
Twist Of Fate and Gotta Serve Somebody.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus and Hans
Seegers for information about this set, which is
unauthorised. I as yet have no details about its contents, except that it
again contains footage of TV broadcasts by Bob.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus
for news that Spin CDs in the UK are advertising a 2DVD release of The 30th
Anniversary Concert Celebration by Classic Rock Direct/Nova/Pinnacle on 7
Apr 2008. This release inexplicably omits 30
mins of the 1990 VHS and laserdisc releases, which were 110 mins. Thanks to Hans Seegers for
information that this release is definitely unauthorised. Reviews on
amazon.co.uk suggest it is a poor transfer from a VHS copy and even omits
all the Dylan performances! You are strongly recommended to avoid this
release.

2008
Classic Rock CBX 2991 (UK) - picture from eil.com

2009 Pirate DVD picture from amazon.com

2012 Pirate 2DVD set - front scan from eBay

2012 Pirate 2DVD set - rear scan from eBay

There is also a 5DVD set from
Classic Rock called The Essential
Dylan that includes The 30th
Anniversary Concert Celebration, but I assume this is of the same quality.
Thanks for Bill Hester for finding a 2009 European DVD called Tribute To
Dylan from Immortal/Zoom/101 Distribution. This appears to have the complete
concert but is still probably from a VHS source. Thanks to Manuel GarcŪa Jara
for finding what purports to be a Sony 2DVD release on eBay - Hans Seegers says
this is also definitely pirated, probably from the VHS or laserdisc release.

This unauthorised DVD contains TV broadcasts by Bob such as I'll
Remember You with Linda Ronstadt, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson on Maggie's
Farm, and the 30th Anniversary Concert celebration performance of My Back
Pages.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for scans of an "iPod-ready"
version that plays in multi-media players as well as DVD players. The white
panel on the rear of the insert specifically says the product must not be
sold in the USA! Thanks also to Vladimir Krutoshinskij for the scans.

This unauthorised DVD is taken from a
"Guitar Legends In Concert" show at Expo '92, Seville, Spain, on 17 Oct
1991. The show including Keith Richards, Phil Manzanera and Jack Bruce was
broadcast on satellite TV and GM radio. Bob's contribution is:

This unauthorised DVD release includes 10 performances from the
broadcast "Hard Rain" TV Special recorded at Fort Collins, CO, 23 May 1976
(see VHS & DVD 1970s), and eleven
performances from the first "Hard Rain" TV Special which was never actually
broadcast, recorded at the Bellevue Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, FL, 22 Apr
1976. The "Hard Rain" TV Special on this DVD was apparently recorded from
Japanese TV, because there are Japanese lyric subtitles during the
performances plus red text boxes containing commentary in Japanese which
float across the screen! This DVD is not recommended.

This unauthorised 5DVD set in a box
includes a book. The video material includes The 30th
Anniversary Concert Celebration, but I assume this is of the same quality as
the 2008 Classic Rock offering listed above.

Thanks to Clint Weiler of MVD Entertainment
Group, Oaks, PA, for information about this two disc set which has the 2008 DVD
listed above plus a CD of interviews. Thanks to Chrome Dreams in the UK for
the promotional copy, which comes in a three panel digipak.

This film traces Bob's early career up to
the controversial world tour with the Hawks in 1966. It includes interviews
with people such as Mickey Jones (the tour drummer), English folk singer
Martin Carthy, and contributions from Derek Barker, C P Lee and Clinton
Heylin.

This unauthorised set includes a book by Jeff Perkins and four DVDs.
Thanks to Derek Barker for information that the DVDs are from Classic Rock
with probably most of the material included in the 5DVD set The Essential
Bob Dylan from 2009 above.